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• That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were.

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  Atheism, Saws, Puritan

  Don Marquis (2013). “The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel”, p.69, Doubleday

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• By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

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  Men, Order, Knowing

  Quoted in E Anthony O Rare Don Marquis (1962), ch.11.

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• If the world were not so full of people, and most of them did not have to work so hard, there would be more time for them to get out and lie on the grass, and there would be more grass for them to lie on.

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  Lying, People, Would Be

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• A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.

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  Funny, Humor, Admission

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• Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

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  Liars, Lying, Lakes

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• It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.

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  Believe, Ego, Would Be

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• He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.

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  Country, Work, Cities

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• Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

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  Poetry, Saws, Blind

  Quoted in Edward Anthony, O Rare Don Marquis (1962)

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• From 'the lesson of the moth': and before i could argue him out of his philosophy he went and immolated himself on a patent cigar lighter i do not agree with him myself i would rather have half the happiness and twice the longevity but at the same time i wish there was something i wanted as badly as he wanted to fry himself

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  Philosophy, Wish, Patents

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• I would rather start a family than finish one.

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  Family, Pumpkin, Starting A Family

  Don Marquis (2006). “The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel”, p.136, Penguin

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• fire is beautiful and we know that if we get too close it will kill us but what does that matter it is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while

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  Beautiful, Fire, Long

  Don Marquis (2006). “The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel”, p.253, Penguin

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• No form of government matters nearly as much as the spirit and intelligence brought to the administration of any form of government.

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  Government, Matter, Administration

  Don Marquis (1935). “Archy does his part”

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• it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty

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  Forever, Instant, Cease

  Don Marquis (2006). “The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel”, p.253, Penguin

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• I do not see why men sheould be so proud insects have the more ancient lineage according to the scientists insects were insects when man was only a burbling whatisit.

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  Men, Atheism, Proud

  Don Marquis (2012). “Archy and Mehitabel”, p.58, Anchor

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• It is a cheering thought to think that God is on the side of the best digestion.

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  Cheer, Thinking, Digestion

  Don Marquis (2013). “The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel”, p.364, Doubleday

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• Most of the people living in New York have come here from the far to try to make enough money to go back to the farm

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  New York, People, Trying

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• An old stomach reforms more whiskey drinkers than a new resolve.

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  Reform, Whiskey, Stomach

  Don Marquis (2013). “The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel”, p.563, Doubleday

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• the high cost of living isnt so bad if you dont have to pay for it

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  Cost Of Living, Pay, Economics

  Don Marquis (2013). “The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel”, p.58, Doubleday

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• The female of all species are most dangerous when they appear to retreat.

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  Female, Retreat, Dangerous

  Don Marquis (1950). “The lives and times of Archy and Mehitabel”, Doubleday Books

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• i have had my ups and downs but wotthehell wotthehell yesterday sceptres and crowns fried oysters and velvet gowns and today i herd with bums but wotthehell wotthehell i wake the world from sleep as i caper and sing and leap when i sing my wild free tune wotthehell wotthehell under the blear eyed moon i am pelted with cast off shoon but wotthehell wotthehell

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  Sleep, Moon, Oysters

  Don Marquis (2006). “The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel”, p.272, Penguin

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• One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.

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  Important, Literature, Care

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• It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

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  Funny, Pregnancy, Humor

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• A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close; The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.

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  Death, Laughter, Grief

  Don Marquis, William McCollum (1982). “Selected letters of Don Marquis”, Northwoods Pr

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• Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.

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  Children, Father, Men

  Don Marquis (2012). “Archy and Mehitabel”, p.55, Anchor

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• Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

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  Funny, Birthday, Meaningful

  "Modern Essays" edited by Christopher Morley, ("The Almost Perfect State"), 1921.

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